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Re: English {phth} (was: Hellenish oddities)

From:Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...>
Date:Saturday, November 25, 2000, 1:25
John Cowan wrote:
> Sphagnum, sphalerite, sphenoid, sphincter, sphinx, sphygmomanometer, > and their derivatives.
Well, I stand corrected. Nevertheless, there still aren't any *common* words beginning with /sf/, and I'd been responding to a comment that "In Danish ... (unlike English) there aren't any word in common use" where initial /sf/ is used. None of those are exactly common, in fact, I've never even heard of the first 3.